both were victors. Neither of them said to Robert (and

mind - produced by its own activity, as the reward of its labour. The occurrences are, indeed,

various; but the idea which pervades them - their deeper import and connection - is one. This

takes the occurrence out of the category of the Past and makes it virtually Present. Pragmatical

(didactic) reflections, though in their nature decidedly abstract, are truly and indefeasibly of the

Present, and quicken the annals of the dead Past with the life of today. Whether, indeed such

reflections are truly interesting and enlivening, depends on the writer's own spirit. Moral reflections

must here be specially noticed, - the moral teaching expected from history; which latter has not

unfrequently been treated with a direct view to the former. It may be allowed that examples of